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Spies & Intelligence

Virginia Hall: The Gestapo's Most Wanted Spy — Called "The Most Dangerous Allied Agent in France"

Virginia Hall, SOE "Marie" / OSS Operative

A Baltimore-born woman with a prosthetic leg she named "Cuthbert" organized the most effective SOE resistance networks in occupied France, evading the Gestapo f...

Resistance Fighters

Le Chambon-sur-Lignon: The French Protestant Village That Hid 5,000 Jews — And Gave No Names

Pastor André Trocmé & Magda Trocmé, village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon

The tiny Huguenot village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in the Auvergne region sheltered an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 Jewish and other refugees during the German occu...